Kids Book Index
Underhill, Edward
A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to win regionals and win back his ex, but a new boy complicates things in Edward Underhill's heartfelt debut YA rom-dram, Always the Almost.Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year’s resolutions: 1) win back his ex-boyfriend (and…
I’d Rather Burn Than BloomShannon C. F. RogersPacked with voice, Shannon C.F. Rogers' I'd Rather Burn than Bloom is a powerful YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's death.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Buffalo FlatsLeavitt, MartineBased on true-life histories, Buffalo Flats shares the epic, coming of age story of Rebecca Leavitt as she searches for her identity in the Northwest Territories of Canada during the late 1800s.Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers…Fiction for Young AdultsOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
An Impossible Thing to SayShahi, AryaThe Poet X meets A Very Large Expanse of Sea in a bold novel-in-verse starring a Persian American teen navigating his first crush, his family's post-9/11 dynamics, and the role of language in defining who we are."A dazzling story with a whole lot of heart.Fiction for Young AdultsOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details